- 1. Gregor Mendel is known as the father of what field of study?
A) Genetics
B) Physics
C) Astronomy
D) Botany
- 2. In what year did Gregor Mendel publish his work on genetics?
A) 1900
B) 1800
C) 1866
D) 2000
- 3. What term is used to describe the unit of heredity Mendel studied?
A) Protein
B) Nucleus
C) Gene
D) Chromosome
- 4. What is the term for an organism's genetic makeup?
A) Mutation
B) Genotype
C) Heredity
D) Phenotype
- 5. In a monohybrid cross, how many traits are typically studied?
A) Four
B) Three
C) Two
D) One
- 6. What term describes the appearance of an organism resulting from its genotype?
A) Phenotype
B) Genotype
C) Mutation
D) Heredity
- 7. In Mendel's experiments, what term describes the offspring resulting from a cross between the parental generations?
A) G1 generation
B) F1 generation
C) P generation
D) F2 generation
- 8. Mendel's Law of Segregation describes the separation of ________ during the formation of gametes.
A) Chromosomes
B) Alleles
C) Traits
D) Genes
- 9. Which of the following describes a genotype with two different alleles for a gene?
A) Heterozygous
B) Dominant
C) Recessive
D) Homozygous
- 10. Mendel demonstrated that traits are inherited independently during which of his experiments?
A) Test cross
B) Monohybrid cross
C) Backcross
D) Dihybrid cross
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